“Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.”

“I ripped the sketch from the wall."Liar."Edward looked more ravaged than usual. "That is a terrible word, coming from you.""Yup.""And not entirely fair.""You had an affair with this...Woman number 6...Were there five others? Seven, eight, and onward?”

“Josiah became King of Judah at the age of eight. Joan of Arc led the French Army at nineteen. King Tut led all of Egypt at age nine. Age isn't everything you think it is. Your heart and your spirit speak more than a simple candle count on your birthday cake. ~Tony (Exposing ELE)”

“For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.”

“The horse seemed to bend time and space as he ran, blurring the landscape and making Frank feel like he'd just drunk a gallon of whole milk without his lactose-intolerance medicine: "Seven hundred and fifty miles per hour. Eight hundred. Eight hundred and three. Fast. very Fast.”

“The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.”